Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le mercredi 12 juillet 2006 à 15:24 -0400, Neal Becker a écrit :
> 1) Don't create needless .rpmsave/.rpmnew if there is no change
Isn't it already supposed to do this ? (though if I look
at /etc/ld.so.conf, probably not)
> 2) Attempt to merge changes, in the manner of a modern revision control
> system.
This is a 100%-proof recipe for disaster, even if conf files where all
in structured format like XML with full grammar available
You are encouraged to take a look at how Gentoo manages with etc-update.
It's quite usable. It doesn't automerge by default, of course, but
the UI is far better than the .rpmsave business.
- ajax